questions
to folks who are writers/write oftenish/have some kind of writing practice or discipline:
* do you go into your writing time with a plan or do you just free write? if you're working on a fiction story, say, do you plan out which scenes you're going to tackle that day or do you just work on wherever you're at in the story?
if you do poetry, do you plan which poems you're going to write or just write whatever strikes you?
* do you include editing in your daily writing time or is that a separate time?
for me, i've been trying to write 30 minutes a day (planning on increasing as i get into it more). i have been starting off with an exercise from a writing book i have and then just been freewriting with the rest of the time. the problem with this (for me) is that i am ending up with a ton of fragments and things half finished. i also don't ever do any editing because i am not sure if that should be included in my daily writing allotment. now, i know i can set my own rules and it's whatever works for me, yada, yada, yada but i am curious to hear from other people about what they do that works for them. i am just feeling this out.
i've never been a disciplined writer. i always wrote whenever the fancy struck me about whatever i felt like. and i have never been a good editor. in fact there are very few times that i will edit anything. sometimes i don't even re-read stuff. this is a problem, i know, and one that i am interested in correcting. hence asking about when editing happens for you.
any insight would be awesome!
* do you go into your writing time with a plan or do you just free write? if you're working on a fiction story, say, do you plan out which scenes you're going to tackle that day or do you just work on wherever you're at in the story?
if you do poetry, do you plan which poems you're going to write or just write whatever strikes you?
* do you include editing in your daily writing time or is that a separate time?
for me, i've been trying to write 30 minutes a day (planning on increasing as i get into it more). i have been starting off with an exercise from a writing book i have and then just been freewriting with the rest of the time. the problem with this (for me) is that i am ending up with a ton of fragments and things half finished. i also don't ever do any editing because i am not sure if that should be included in my daily writing allotment. now, i know i can set my own rules and it's whatever works for me, yada, yada, yada but i am curious to hear from other people about what they do that works for them. i am just feeling this out.
i've never been a disciplined writer. i always wrote whenever the fancy struck me about whatever i felt like. and i have never been a good editor. in fact there are very few times that i will edit anything. sometimes i don't even re-read stuff. this is a problem, i know, and one that i am interested in correcting. hence asking about when editing happens for you.
any insight would be awesome!